Panic Switch · Silversun Pickups

180 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 22 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
PANIC SWITCH · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 49, 50 and 10 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 10 sections: 137 keep time, 16 are fills and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-48.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesBFS6IL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Panic Switch?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Panic Switch hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Panic Switch?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 49, 50 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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